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Callahan's March 2001 Bar Rag!"To Callahan's Warmth
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"To the Magic of Callahan's, which embraces time and place... ***************SMASH***************** -- Elizabeth Kate (ELIZABETHKAT) Night Terrors Hi all.. Our fourth annual Valentine's Day love poetry contest has come to an end. It yielded some wonderful poetry as you will see.. First prize (50 bucks!) and our congratulations went to RICHARD10936 for "Learning by a Narrow Light" and Elizabeth Kate wins second prize for her "Rite of Purification." A note from Peter, our Poetry editor and contest judge: "On a personal note, I want to thank all the poets who submitted to the contest and who enriched us all with their work. If you did not win, don't be discouraged. Every judge has personal tastes, and tastes differ. It is also possible that the judge is an idiot. His assistant in the judging process, Mary Edna, would be the best judge of that." A reminder: Last month we started a 'gateway' page on an off site area for everyone to use to access Callahans. It's located on our 50megs site. I urge you all to visit the page and bookmark it.. and use it whenever you come to visit us. There are links on that page that bring you to our message board and conference rooms at Delphi..:) I had a great time with our joint special conference with Singles. It was fun meeting the folks there and hopping back and forth between forums. I'm hoping we can do it again soon..:) CSTAR sent us the latest happenings at the message boards. Somehow, somewhere on the board in February, we started talking about spoons. Teaspoons, to be specific, Callahanian teaspoons. Not only can they be used to move mountains, as David began teaching us long ago, but there are More Than 101 Uses for a Callahan's Spoon. Sylphidine (LIBRARYLION) started the thread, with ample suggestions fromTam_Za, newcomer (LADYLILY99), Pegasus (VE5CAP), David, bones, Roberta, Bee (RAWLINSON1), Plex (PLEXA) and others, the list has actually grown to more than 101 uses. Bright said, "Hey--I just got a "Bright Idea" (patent pending--not to be confused with Great Idea.com). How's about we produce a Rainy-Day Activities book of 1001 things to do with a Callahan's memento spoon?" The last I checked, we were up to 105. Here are some of the suggestions for uses for a Callahanian teaspoon... can you think of more? We may make 1001 uses yet!
Stir up "stuff" Bright JP's looking for something, and I think it's magic. Help him out here, he's been looking everywhere! Cstar took advantage of Ken's credit card in February, [Ed: so what's new?] by redecorating the entire bar. In a virtual flurry, she replaced the theater seats, assigning the design and installation of the new appointments to Pegasus, David and bones, chose the wood for new tables, picked new chairs, decided to do the walls in a textured light and dark paneling with some wild and peaceful paint colors; considered the advantages of Smuggled Khashmiri rugs over Rexemmklslkern from shhhh... (Grey got it...) with Bob Hall (WEREDRAGON) in Floors, assigned all future music decisions to Jedi Goodknight (IMAGINES) as the new head of live musical entertainment; changed the pool into a soft coral reef (pretty like coral, but "spongy"), added new pool tables, and caused just a "little bit of trouble" in the Library. Who's in trouble? Why, the GreyLensman (PHOTO11) of course! Or will Cstar be in trouble, once Ken starts seeing all those charges show up on his credit card? Yikes! Birthday Greetings were heartily extended to:
Comprehending Engineers, -- Take One A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer fumed, "What's with these guys?" "We must have been waiting for 15 minutes!" The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!" The pastor said, "Hey, here comes the greens keeper. Let's have a word with him." "Hi George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us? They're rather slow, aren't they?" The greens keeper replied, "Oh, yes, that's a group of blind fire fighters. They lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let them play for free anytime." The group was silent for a moment. The pastor said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them tonight." The doctor said, "Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy and see if there's anything he can do for them." The engineer said, "Why can't these guys play at night?" -- cump (MERRITT9) Poem of the Month - "Staring Eyes"
The day is done, the work is done -- © 2001~Karisma~ March 25, 2001 And speaking of poetry...
Congratulations to Pretty Dark for her honorable mention
in the
February IBPC poetry competition for her poem,
"True-be Red" or "I Used To Be Snow White, but I
Drifted." "Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view." - Unknown We hope to start offering the Bar Rag via email starting next month. Please send us a note if you want to receive the Bar Rag each month via email. Your email address will not be made visible to others who receive the Bar Rag. We will, of course, continue to post the Rag on our Web site..:) We hope you find the Bar Rag entertaining and informative. We can always use good pieces and writers here. If you have something you would like to submit, or have a comment, good or bad, about the newsletter, or if you wish to be added to or removed from our Bar Rag mailing list, simply send us a note. |